Supply installation for central chassis lubrication



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Patented Junei14, 19 27. V

UNITED ST 1,632,776 PATENT OFFICE.

IOSEPE BIIUR, OI NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AUTO RESEARCH CORPORATION,

' A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SUPPLY INSTALLATION FOR CENTRAL CHASSIS LUBRICATION.

Original application m August as,

My present invention relates primarily to chassis lubrication and is more particularly concerned with the arrangement for mounting or applying a source'of lubricant and of pressure, upon the motor vehicle.

While the invention is of wider utility, it is more especially concerned with the installation or application of areservoir and pump assembly of the eneral type claimed in my copending app%ication, Serial No. 131,640 filed August 26, 1926, of which the present application is a division, that is, with the constructional features of, and as- 'sociated with said assembly, that are concerned with the installation or mounting,

rather than with the functioning or opera tion thereof.

It is an object of the invention to provide 'a mounting arran ement for an installation of the above type y which the latter may be conveniently and securely ap lied at the dashboard or other wall of the drivers compartment without the exercise of skill in aligning or adjusting the parts.

Another object is to provide amounting arrangement of the character referred to, which, without the addition of parts of considerable weight or bulk, shall yet afford an installed construction, rugged and secure, at

the parts that carry the weight, or that sustain the thrust of the pump in operation.

Preferably the pro-assembled reservoir l and pum are applied by passing the operating on of the pump through a corresponding aperture in the dashboard from the engine side thereof, the lower part of the assembled ,structure being formed or pro- .vided with an appropriate flange secured against the dashboard. The pump operating knob, which may be of diameter larger than the .aperture in the dashboard, is affixed to the outer. end of the pump piston,

to complete the installation, after the reservoir has been secured in place.

In a preferredconstruction, in which a "substantlal 'len h of the pump cylinder structure exten s rearward from the dashboard, into the drivers compartment, the

outer part of said structure is steadied by 1926, Serial No. 131,640. Divided and um application filed April 0,1921. Serial No. 182,862.

is shown one of various possible embodi ments of the several features of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a side view of the complete installation mounted on a dashboard, parts being shown in section,

Fig.2 is a top plan view of tionei a Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 1 on a larger scale, with parts broken away to disclose interior construction, and;

the installareservoir. I

Referring now to the drawings, I have shown a lubricant reservoir and pump as sembly, preferably comprising a rugged cast element or bottom 10 for the reservoir, the

side wall 11 of which maybe made of sheet metal. The cast bottom 10 accommodates the base of a pump cylinder 12, preferably a length of pipe secured by screwing at 13 into a. corresponding socket in the cast bottom '10, and extending obliquely upward therefrom.

The detailed construction of the reservoir and pump per se and in combination, constituting the subject-matter of'the copending parent application, above'identified, are not material to the invention claimedherein and are, therefore, not fully described.

It may be briefly noted, however, that the reservoir includes a filling cap 15 and has a check valve 16', preferably in the cast bot- Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the tom structure 10, which valve is seated during pump discharge and prevents return flow to the reservoir,"so that the oil is forced out in pump discharge, into the pipe line (not shown) by way of the outlet nipple 17 in the bottom of the reservoir.

The pump comprises a piston rod 18 having. a piston cup structure 19 at the endthereof and a buffer structure including a .spring20 enclosed in a thimble 21 and urged by the coil spring 22 to normally close preferably both the inlet to and the outlet from the pump.

The reservoir'and pump combination is mounted preferably upon the dashboard of an automobile in a manner now to be described. 'For this purpose, the cast bottom 10 is formed integral with a pair of webs 23 havin feet 24' determining a mounting flange. he dashboard D is provided with an aperture 25 of diameter but little larger than that of the pump cylinder, so that the pump and reservoir combination may be applied to the dashboard by passing the pump :ylinder through aperture 25 from the engine side of the dashboard, until the mountmg flan e 24 comes into face contact with thedash oard. The flange is then clamped tight against the dashboard by bolts and nuts 26 passed through the dashboard and clamping the mounting feet in position thereagainst;

While the attachment described is generally sufficient, it may be desirable to steady the upper end of the reservoir by additional securin means. For this purpose, a strap 27 is so dered to the outside of the reservoir and has laterally extending ears 28 which are clamped against the dashboard by bolts and nuts 29 theret-hrough.

The pump cylinder structure 12 being preferably of substantial length and small diameter rotrudes for a substantial length into the rivers compartment under the instrument board (not shown). In order to steady the outer end of said cylinder, a bracket is preferably provided which is secured to some fixed part of the drivers compartment. In the preferred embodiment shown, the bracket comprises a generally triangular stampin 30 having a ledge 31 at its wider end or base secured against the drivers side of the dashboard, preferably by the same bolts 29, which serve for attachment of the strap 27 of the reservoir. The

forward or apex end of the bracket is formed as a strap 32 encircling the outboard end of the pum cylinder, and clamped thereabout by b0 t 33. The sides of the bracket 30 are provided with downturned ledges 30 which stifl'en the same to resist sway of the pump cylinder in a vertical plane, while the main web of the bracket affords considerable stiifness in the plane thereof to resist lateral sway of the cyhnder.

It is desired to provide a pump operating knob 34 of relatively large diameter for c0nvemence of operation, but such knob could not be passed through the small dashboard aperture 25. Accordingly, the knob is left off the pum prior to installingthe same upon the das board, the entire length of the pump cylinder without the knob being of smaller diameter than a erture 25. the installation is comp ete the knob can then be applied upon the ree end of the pump piston rod and secured in position by means of a locked washer 35.

To avoid dripping of oil into the drivers compartment from the reservoir or the wetting of the pump handle or exposed length of cylinder, with oil leaked past thepump After piston, I direct such oil to drain from the engine side of the dashboard. In a preferred embodiment, the pump cylinder is provided with one or' more outlets inadvance of the pump piston, illustratively shown as apertures 36 immediately beyond the outermost extremity of the pump piston structure. A sheet metal drain sleeve 37 of diameter larger than that of the pump cylinder encirclesthe same and is inturned at its upper end at 38 immediately beyond the drain apertures, into snug engagement with said cylinder. The inner end of the drain sleeve is securely afiixed to the pump by longitudinal ribs 39 embossed inward thereupon, affording passage 40 therebetween,

through which the leaking lubricant will.-

escape from in front of the dashboard.

Any lubricant thus draining from in front of the dashboard, if allowed to flow toward, and to wet the nipple 17 which supplies the pipe line (not shown) might create the mistaken impression that there is a leak at the threads of said nipple. Accordingly, the support base 10 immediately below the outlet end of the drain sleeve 37 has a structure with one or more drip points 41 from which the oil leaking from the drain sleeve and spreading along casting 10 will drip ofi, before it can reach the nipple 17. Preferably the drip points 41 are conformed as a bifurcated structure straddling the pipe line,so that the leaking oil will not Wet the latter.

Inasmuch as the .drain arrangement described, precludes the escape' of lubricant from the operating head of the pump, 1 dispense with the need for a packing or gland at the outer end of the pump. b'uch packing or glands not only add expense, but induce large and irregular friction resistance, thereby impairing the ease and regularity of pump operation. Accordingly, I provide merely a solid metal button 42 as the head of the cylinder, snugly surrounding the piston rod and held in place by indentations ora peripheral groove 43 about the outer end of the cylinder.

The arrangement for draining lubricant that has leaked past the pump piston is not claimed herein, either alone, or in combination with the arrangement formounting the pump installation in position; my divisional application Serial No. 193,090, filed May 21, 1927, being directed to that subject matter.

It will be seen that the installation is readily affixed to the dashboard, and that in use, the single rugged mountin casting 10 supports the entire weight of t e reservoir and of its contents and takes the thrust exerted in pump operation. The casting being secure y mounted directly a ainst the dashboard, leverage tending to oosen the same, is avoided.

I claim therewith and deriving its charge therefrom,- 5 a common support for said reservoir and pump, afiixed directly to said dashboard said pump having a cylinder structure protruding through and with the major art of the length thereof extending rearwa from the dashboard, and a bracket supporting the outboard part of said structure.

2. In -a chassis lubricating installation, a reservoir having a laterally extending pump cylinder structure combined in a umtary assembly therewith, said assembly including a rugged supporting part secured to the dashboard and sustaining stresses on the pump, the major len h of the pump cylinder structure exten ing rearward of the dashboard, and an auxiliary bracket for steadying the outboard part of said structure.

.3. A supply installation for'a chassis lu-' bricating system comprising a lubricant .re-

a in the charging and in the ejection of the pump.

4 A chassis lubricating installation comprising a reservoir and pump assembl said assembly including a supporting e ement adapted to be secured against the dashboard with the reservoir wall extending thereabove and with. a pump cylinder aflixed at said supporting element with a substantial rtion of "the length thereof protru 'ng through and substantially closing a corresponding aperture in the dashboard, a pietaining casting provided with a flat flan e' ton rod in said cylinder and a handle knob of larger diameter than said aperture adapted to be fixed upon the protruding end of the iston rod, after the otherwise p'reassemb ed installation has been mounted in place on the dashboard. v

5. A chassis lubricating installation comprising adashboard, a pum andreservoir assembly including a casting avinga flange and bolts securing the same against the engine side of the dashboard, a reservoir wall extending thereabove, a (pump cylinder mounted in said castin an extending obliguely upwardly there cm at the dnvers si e of the dashboard, a sustaining bracket for the outboard end, of said pump, said :bracket comprising a sheet metal piece secured to the dashboard at its base and extending obli uely downward from said dashboard and avinga strap art clamped about the outboard end of t e pump cylinder.

6. The combination set forth in claim 5 in which the reservoir has a strap member near itsupper end with ears against the engine side of the dashboard and in which bolts through the dashboard secure both the ears of said strap and; the base of said bracketin position.

der and clamped at its other end against 1 said dashboar by said bolts.

Signed at New York city in the county of New York and State of New York April I JOSEPH BIJUR. 

